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The LHC is the new b-hadron factory and will be dominating flavour physics until the start of Belle II, and beyond in many decay modes. While the $B$ factories and Tevatron experiments are still analysing their data, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb are producing interesting new results in CP violation and rare decays, that set strong constraints on models beyond that SM and exhibit some discrepancies with the SM predictions. The LHCb collaboration used the LHC 50 ns ramp-up period of July 2015 to measure the double-differential $J/psi$, $J/psi$-from-$b$-hadron and charm cross-sections at $sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV. Both measurements were performed directly on triggered candidates using a reduced data format that does not require offline processing.
As first Run II data acquisition has begun, it is useful to expose the pending questions by reviewing some of the most recent results obtained with Run I data analyses. Early results of the current data taking and middle-term prospects are also shown to illustrate the efficiency of the acquisition and analysis chain.
We report on the first measurements of the LHCb experiment, as obtained from $pp$ collisions at $sqrt{s} = 0.9$ TeV and 7 TeV recorded using a minimum bias trigger. In particular measurements of the absolute $K^0_S$ production cross section at $sqrt{s} = 0.9$ TeV and of the $bar{Lambda}/Lambda$ ratio both at $sqrt{s} = 0.9$ TeV and 7 TeV are discussed and preliminary results are presented.
The 10$^{rm th}$ International Workshop on the CKM Unitary Triangle took place at the University of Heidelberg on September 17$^{rm th}$-21$^{rm st}$, 2018. In this write-up, we summarize the material discussed at the workshop by the Working Group 7, which focused on latest experimental results and theoretical developments in the study of mixing and $CP$ violation in the neutral $D$ system, and of $CP$ violation and decay properties of other charm mesons and baryons.
At the eve of the second LHC data taking run, some of the most recent results obtained by the LHCb collaboration with Run I data are reviewed. Improved measurements on CP violation, unitary triangle and mixing parameters are shown. Recent progress on physics in the forward region is illustrated by examples picked up in the electroweak physics and beyond Standard Model searches.
Latest LHCb measurements of $CP$ violation in the interference between mixing and decay are presented based on $pp$ collision data collected during LHC Run I, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3.0, {rm fb}^{-1}$. Approximately $27, 000$ $B_s^0to J/psi pi^+pi^-$ signal events are used to make what is at the moment the most precise single measurement of the $CP$-violating phase in $bto cbar{c}s$ transitions, $phi_s^{cbar{c}s}=0.070pm0.068{rm (stat.)}pm0.008{rm (syst.)}$ rad. The most accurate measurement of the $CP$-violating phase in $bto sbar{s}s$ transitions, $phi_s^{sbar{s}s}$, is found from approximately $4, 000$ $B_s^0to phiphi$ signal events to be $phi_s^{sbar{s}s}=-0.17pm{rm (stat.)}0.15pm0.03{rm (syst.)}$ rad.